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The list of battleships includes all battleships built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the so-called ' pre-dreadnought battleship ', is not obvious, as the characteristics of the pre-dreadnought evolved in the period from 1875 to 1895.
Maine and Texas were part of the "New Navy" program of the 1880s. Texas and BB-1 to BB-4 were authorized as "coast defense battleships", but Maine was ordered as an armored cruiser and was only re-rated as a "second class battleship" when she turned out too slow to be a cruiser.
Figure 1: Rangekeeper Coordinate System. The coordinate system has the target as its origin. The y axis value range to the target. US Navy rangekeepers during World War II used a moving coordinate system based on the line of sight (LOS) between the ship firing its gun (known as the "own ship") and the target (known as the "target").
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7. Gibbons, Tony (1983). The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships and Battlecruisers - A Technical Directory of all the World's Capital Ships from 1860 to the Present Day. London, UK: Salamander Books Ltd. p. 272. ISBN 0-517-37810-8.
North Carolina-class battleships (4 P) O. Orion-class battleships (6 P) P. Pennsylvania-class battleships (4 P) Peresvet-class battleships (5 P) Petropavlovsk-class ...
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4 pre-Dreadnought battleships (all 4 × 12-inch (305 mm), 18 knots) 1 Formidable-class variant Mikasa (Capt. Ijichi Hikojirō) 2 Shikishima-class Shikishima (Capt. Teragaki Izō) Asahi [a] (variant) (Capt. Nomoto Tsunaaki) 1 Fuji-class Fuji (Capt. Matsumoto Kazu) 2 armored cruisers: both Giuseppe Garibaldi-class variants Kasuga (Capt. Katō ...
USS Ohio (BB-12), a Maine-class pre-dreadnought battleship, was the third ship of her class and the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 17th state.She was laid down at the Union Iron Works shipyard in San Francisco in April 1899, was launched in May 1901, and was commissioned into the fleet in October 1904.